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THE ONL Y EIGHT-PACE ONE-CENT DAIL YIN THE ova/{WALKS
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voi. VII Whole No.1578
Eiiioiirgiriiii.
East Norwalk Post Office to he
Made a Free Delivery Sta-
tion With, Two Letter
Carriers on
July I.
I
A Danliury Man Receives an Appointment.
GAZETTE’S BUREAU, )
709 EAST CAPITOL STREET, )-
WASHINGTON. MARCH.23 l
DEAR GAZETTE:—The President gave
a most cordialf reception and hand-
shake to twohundred and more news-
paper toilers employed here for dif-
ferent papers throughout the country.
The long line‘was “tailed” by the Chi-
nese Legation, who took this occasion
to pay their respects to Mr. McKinley.
o o o .
The President sent out but two ap-
pointments to-day and among them
was Chester H. Brush, of Connecticut,
to be recorder of the general land of-
fice.
O O 0
There was a striking contrast between
the attendance in response to Presi-
dent McKinley’s invitation and the
visit of the correspondents to President
Cleveland a month ago. Fourteen new-
paper men found their hearts warm
enough to pay their respects to the re-
tiring President. Ten times that num-
ber were present at the Executive Man-
sion to meet Mr. McKinley this after-
HOOD.
0 O O
The Senate to-day, had a lively de-
bate over the civil service law, and in
Which Senator Hawley actively partici-
pated.
o o o
The Republican members of the Sen-
ate Committee on Finance are at work
revising the Dingley tariff bill.
o o o
Congressman Hill achieved the big-
gest and most important victory for his
home constituents of his whole official
life. Sometime since a petition, num-
bering some five hundred names of.
East Norwalk residents. praying for the
establishment fat the free delivery sys-
tem at that beautiful suburb’s post
office. Mr. Hill could make no head-
way with the last administration but the
result shows that he has had better
luck with this. To-day he received
official notice from the Postoffice De-
partment that on July let, the East
Norwalk office would be made a free
delivery station,with two letter carriers
appointed for the much needed service.
In fact, it is doubtful if any office in the
state stood in more imperative need of
the carrier system than East NorWalk
and our Congressman is to be congrat-
ulated upon the successful issue of his
earnest and determined efforts in this
matter.
0 o 0
Commissioner of Patents Seymour
wired an invitation for Mrs. LeGrand
C. Bette, to come on here and enjoy the
sudden advent of our ll .y weather, but
up to this evening he had received no
assurance that she could. come. Mrs.
Betts it is said is a sufferer from the
grip.
o o 0
Secretary Porter to-day had his
children forwarded to him from Pom-
fret to the joy of his accomplished and
motherly wife.
AMUSEMENTS.
Sowing the Wind.
“An event of more than ordinary im-
portance” is a stereotyped phrase, and
it has been used quite often in the an-
nouncements of coming theatrical at-
tractions. But it is accurate enough
‘ and modest enough to characterize the
engagement of Sydney Grundy’s “sex
against sex” drama “Sowing the Wind,”
at Hoyt’s Theatre, Saturday night.
We are familiar with the furore caused
by this play in Boston and New York
during its run in both cities, when the
cream of the literary, artistic and fash-
ionable worlds and good playgoers gen-
erally, turned out, ”or rather in, to see
it and gladly crown it with the tribute
of their praise.
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Town Court Judges
Senator E. O. Keeler yesterday in-
troduced a resolution, appointing Rus-
sell Frost judge and 1:1. Whitmore
Gregory associate judge of the Norwalk
town :‘court for two years from July 1
1897.
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Deputy Collector Bunnell Dead.
I 5 Charles H. Bunnell, deputy collector
of the New Haven Custom House, died
about noon yesterday at his home,‘ 40
years.
Norwalk, Conn, Wednesday Evening, March 24, 1897.
WILL NOT SUE.
1. Spencer & 00., Believe the Action of
“Captain lkc” Well Intended.
The following letter from J. Spencer
& Co...relative to recent seizure of dia-
monds by Deputy Sheriff Doolans is
self eXplanatory:
EDITOR EVENING GAZETTE: -——'The
question having repeatedly been asked,
as to what action we propose to take in
regard to the recent levv on our stock
try the Sheriff of $1011.00 worth of dia-
m‘ -s, to secure the payment of the
bal" .,of the County tax, we wish to
sav, that we are advised by our Coun-
sel that we have a valid claim for dam-
ages against the Town, but as we believe
the action of the Sewrvmen has been
well intended, and ilw design was to
save the Town from paying an llDJIISt
proportion of'the County tax, we will
take no action in the matter.
Yours truly,
SPENCER Sr Co.
NorWalk. Conn., March 24, ’07.
Druggists Aroused.
Druggists are making a strong effort
to interest all their fellow tradesmen in
the bill before the legislature, increas-
ing the druggist’s license fee to 8400.
The bill, if put through, will put the
druggist on a footing with the regular
saloon keeper. There is only one drug-
gist in the legislature, a Saybrook rep-
resentative, and he will probably head
the opposition to the bill. In Hartford
the druggists are united in opposition
to the proposed measure and an effort.
is being made to rouse the New Haven:
ers to a sense of the danger. The meas-
ure arose from, the recent alleged at-
tempt of the Danbury druggists to un-
dersell the saloons in certain kinds of.
liquors.
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(in Full Time.
The big woolen mills of Rockville in-
cluding the Hockanum, Springville,
New England, Rock and American
mills, practically resumed running on
full time Monday. The mills have been
running on two thirds time since Feb-
ruary, 1895. These mills employ 2,000
persons when running at full capacity
with a weekly pay roll of $15,000. The
products of the mill is a fine quality of
woolens. This was the first general
short-‘Itime ‘schedule ever adopted by
these mills.
Bridgeport Republicans.
The Bridgeport Republicans held
their city and town conventions last
evening. Thomas P. Taylor, now po-
lice commissioner and an ex-member of
the, board of commonlcouncil,wasnomi-
natednfor mayor. Mr. Taylor is a cor-
set manufacturer. Other nominations
made were as f0110ws: City clerk, Ed.
ward P. Challenger; town clerk, Char-
les Keller; city treasurer, John M.
Grifiith; 'collector of taxes, James Mc-
Elroy.
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Got a Divorce.
In the Superior court yesterday Judge
Ralph Wheeler granted Carrie F.Smith
of Stamford a decree of divorcepfrom
Douglass B. Smith and also the cus.
tody of her two minor children. The
decree was granted on the grounds of
intolerable cruelty. The case was tried
several weeks ago and was adjourned
for further and corroborative testimony
which was submitted yesterday.
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Who Were They?.
Two fiwalk young women who
came to Stamford last night, attracted
attention by a heated dispute which
arose between them. Several witnesses
expected to see them launch forth into
battle at any moment, but they finally
separated and returned to Norwalk
alone. The dispute, it is. said, was over
a Fourth Ward young mam—Advocate.
For Spitting in the Car.
The first prosecution under the anti-
spitting law was tried in New London
Monday. James Elliott, Jr., who spat
in an electric car after being ad-
monished by the conductor was fined
‘83 and costs.
Large quantities of smelt are being
caught in Westport harbor.
A West avenue man might have been
seen yesterday afternoon exercising his
lawn-mower.
Most of the sick people in town are
reported as getting along on the road
to recovery.
Selectman and ice-dealer Frank. H.
Merrill will attend the ice-dealers’ con-
vention at Middletown to-morrow.
The rain this morning caused a tem-
porary cessation on the work of the
Tramway track laying, on Westport
avenue.
Governor Cooke yesterday‘signed the
commission of Theron C. Platt of New-
town and William B. Sprague of An-
dover as members of the state board of
agriculture.
KILLED Bl_A_ BULLET.
Marano and TangiloliLoved
the Same Woman.
Met at Her Home and a (luarrel, Started.
Antonio Tangiloli, aged 47 years, was
shot and instantly killed in an Italian
tenement at 19 Union street, New Ha-
ven, last night by James Marano. Both
men are Italians.
The murder was the result of the
unlawful love of each of the participants
for a woman named Benedett, whose
husband is at work -in North Adams,
Mass, Tangiloli departed from his
usual custom and visited the woman
last night. It was not his night for
calling and he found a rival there in
the person of Marano. Marano thought
that Ta ngiloli was encroaching on his
rights and so stated. A quarrel fol-
lowed during which Marano drew a .38
calibre revolver from his pocket and
shot Tangiloli. The aim of Marano
was true. The bullet passed through
the other’s heart, killing him instantly.
The murderer at once fled and thus far
has managed to escape.
The police at once set to work to fol-
low up the assassin,but at last accounts
they had not met with success. Word
of the affair and a description ‘of the
murderer was sent out to all cities.
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A MADMAN’S BITE.
Serious Results to a Resident of Glas-
, tonbury.
Glastonbury furnishes an apparently
genuine case 'of bits by a madman.
Antone Bantley lives alone on what is
commonly known as East street, very
near the town line, between Glaston-
bury and EastlHartford. He “farms it”
a little and works for people in the,
neighborhood. , "
One night, about ten days ago, he '
was awakened by loud knocking at the
door. He partly dressed and opened
the door, when a man who was unknown
to him requested to be permitted to
spend the night there. He said he had
no home and would freeze if he had to
stay out of doors all night. Mr. Baht-
ley noticed that the man was somewhat
intoxicated, but out of pity for him he
allowed him to enter the house, and
after inviting him to warm himself by
the fire, gave him a bed. The stranger
was soon asleep and Mr. Bentley went
back to bed.
'In the middle of the night Mr. Bant-
ley was awakened from sound slumber
by a fearful pain in his leg. He tried
to jump out of bed, but found himself
pinned down by the man he had ad-
mitted to his house. . The stranger had
apparently gone mad. He was white
and frothy about the lips and was vi-
ciously biting Mr. Bantley in the right
leg, just above the knee. Mr. Bentley
struck out desperately, and exerting
himself to his utmost forced the mad-
man from him, and after a struggle put
him out of the house,
Mr. Bentley then examined himself
and found that the man had bitten sev-
eral times through the flesh of the 169.
At first he did not consider the wounds
serious, but they have swollen and
blood poisoning has set in, and he is now
in a dangerous condition. Dr. C. G.
Rankin is attending him. _
The doctOr said yesterday that al-
though the wounds were serious he had
hopes of Mr. Bentley’s recovery. Noth-
ing. has been heard of the madman
since he left.
The George I Buxton residence on
Elmorest is being repainted.
Warren Osterbanks has removed from
Maple street to Chestnut street.
Joseph Goldschmidt proposes opening
a watch repairing store in Westport at
an early date. .
Selectmen Selleck, 'l‘homes and Mer-
rill are in Hartford to (lay attending a
meeting of the board of equalization.
Nines from rooms numbers 3and4
of St. Mary’s school. are scheduled to
play a match game of ball this after
noon. - i .
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Public Bequests or $60,000.
Bloomsburg, Pa... March 24.—Mrs. Sa-
rah J. Brown, who died here recently,
gave all, of' her fortune of $60,000 to
Methodist charities. Among the bene-
ficiaries are: Church Extension society,
residue and‘$10,000; Preachers’ Aid so-
ciety, $1,000, and Woman's 'Home Mis-
sionary society, $2,000.
South African. Alliance.
Pretoria, March 24.—The draft of the
treaties between the Transvaal Repub-
lic and the Orange Free State have been
concluded. They give the burghers of
each state the franchise in either repub-
lic, and the two republics agree to sup-
port. one another in case of attack. The
treaties must be/ ratified by- the yolks-
guilds. .,
HERE AND THERE.-
An ‘EpitomeTiPRa-ippenings or
. Interest to the Public.
Garnered With Scissors and Pencil.
Buckingham Post, G.-A. R. will meet
to-nightr ‘ '
There were 32 guests at the Hotel
Howard last night.
—The' best line of Sundries in Town
atlSaunders.
The directors of the Norwalk club
held a meeting last evening. '
The annual report of the board of
school visitors is being distributed.
It is a typical March day, snow,wind,
rain, Sunshine, thunder, lightning, etc.
The store fronts in the James build-
ing on Water street are to be painted
white.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Smith of Bar-
bor avenue are visiting friends in New
York city to-day.
The Norwalk young ladies attending
Vassar college are expected home for
the Easter vacation on Friday.
A special meeting of the ofiicers and
directors of St. Mary’s Ladies’ Aid as-
sociation will be held this evening.
—Welcome Stranger Lode 9, Sons (f
St. George will hold a box sociabe at
their hall on Main street, tonight.
The admission chirgsd is but 10 cents.
Officer Kenney who has been laid up
just five weeks with an attack of
rheumatism was able to be out to~day.
Rev. T. K. Noble Will give the third
in his series of Lenten s’ermons to-mor-
row evening in the Congregational
chapeL,. I
There are 437 convicts at the state
prison, the largest number in the his-
tory of the institution. Twelve are sick
in the hospital.
W. A. Benedict is moving from Maple
street to Union park. Mrs. C. F.
Osborn will occupy the house vacated
by Mr. Benedict.
—Good second hand wheels for 320 at
Saunder’s 12 North Main street, South
Norwalk.
Harry Goldschmidt with the help of
his physician, Dr. S. H. Huntington,
has gotten the better of an attack of
the grip which started in to get a tight
hold on him.
The annual meeting and election of
officers of the Woman’s 'club will be
held at the residence of Mrs. Dexter
Hitchcock, West avenue, to-morrow
afternoon.
Selectmen Merrill and Themes will
go to Buffalo, N. Y., to-morrow to in-
spect, previous to shipment to Norwalk,
the steam road roller recently purchas-
ed by the town.
A remonstrance has been filed with
the county commissioners against
granting a. liquor license to Patrick
Nash of 60 River street, Danbury. An-
other bne will be presented.
The prospect for the trade in seed
oysters is regarded as excellent. In
this portion of the sound there has been
no more than the usual trouble with
star fish and the winter’s storms have
caused no trouble.
Mrs. William H.'Hamilton Complain-
ed to the police this morning that her
husband had assaulted her last night,
and offering as substantiating evidence
“a lovely black eye.” No arrest has
as yet been made.
H. H. Williams the well-known Main
street dealer in all that goes to make a
kitchen or dining room complete as to
accessories, was this morning in receipt
of another lot of milk-bottles. They
each hold a quart and are of the most
approved make.
The. adjutant-general. has issued an
order granting Troop A. First Battal-
ion of Cavalry, Second Brigade, M. V.
M., Captain Oscar A. Jones command-
ing, permission to enter and pass
through the state on route to.and from
New York, April 27.
—Don’t buy cheap wheels when you
can get high grade ones at the same
prices at, Saunder’s, 12 North Main
street, South Norwalk.
The party who took a bag containing
a number of rag carpet balls from the
Ratchford Cafe will save himself trouble
and expense by returning the same.
He is known and it is only through the
leniency of Mr. 'Ratchford that he
has not been placed under arrest. -
wssrs summons. '
He Is Supposed to Know Something of
the Death of Aimee Smith.
New York, March 24.——Nelson M.
Weeks, the man who, it is alleged,
knows more than any other person
about the circumstances of the recent
death of Aimee Smith at the Victor ho-
tel, in this city, surrendered himself to-
day. -
Weeks and Miss Smith, it has been
said, registered at the Victor hotel on
March 8 as “J. Everett and wife, Chi-‘
cago.” The woman a little later was
found dying. It was supposed the girl
died of poison, and an analysis is being
made of the stomach. She died without
making any disclosures. ’
At the time of. the woman’s death the
man who had been with her disappear-
ed. Weeks, who had been friendly
with Miss Smith, disappeared ffom his
Hackensack home at the same time, and
this fact cast suspicion upon him." De-
' tectives have since been looking for
him, it is said.
Yesterday Theodore S. Weeks of 261
Mott avenue, Long Islarid City, a broth-
er of Nelson M. Weeks, called upon Cor-
oner Dobbs’ clerk and said that his
brother was near at hand and ready
to answer-any charge made against
him.
Today Nelson M. Weeks, accompanied
by his brother and Central Office De—
tective Flay, entered the criminal court
building and took the elevator to Cor-
oner Dobbs’ office.
The fugitive was met in the corridor
by his 17-year—old son. Without utter-
ing a. word they embraced each other
and kissed, tears streaming down the
faces of both.
The scene seemed to indicate that
Weeks had not seen any member of his
family at; Hackensack since he disap-
peared after Aimee Smith’s death.
The party were ushered into Coroner
Dobbs’ office, and admission to every
one else was denied.
Coroner Dobbs afterward said that
Weeks had made a. full Confession. ‘ He
said that the girl died of heart trouble,
and he, fearing publicity, had left the
state, but he suffered so much that he
decided to return and give himself up.
Spanish Battalion Captured.
Havana, March 24.—Fighting has been
reported near Santa. Clara. It is said
that Garcia has captured a. Spanish
battalion of 300 men. The report can-
not be confirmed, though the excitement
among the Spanish officers would indi-
cate that some disaster has befallen
their army. Several trains were wreck-
ed in this province on Saturday and
Sunday. The town of Lacon, 20 miles
southeast of this city, was raided on
Sunday by Colonel. Hernandez. The
garrison was forced to retreat. The in-
surgents looted stores and secured $2,000
in silver that had been hidden by a.
Spanish merchant.
Philadelphia. Brewers Combine.
Philadelphia, March 24.—Six
breweries, with a. total annual output
of 220,000 barrels of beer, have agreed
upon a. consolidation of their business.
In aweek or two the Consumers’ Brew-
ing company, with a capital of morle
than $5,000,000, will own and operate
the plants now run by John Roehm,
the Excelsior, the VVelde & Thomas,
Spaeth, Krauter & Hess, John C. Miller
& Sons and the Mutual. Henry Hess is
president of the company. '
' Rusie May Rejoin the Giants.
Indianapolis, March 24,—Indicat’i0ns
point to an early settlement of Amos
Rusie’s differences with President
Freedman of the New York Baseball
club, and it is believed here that the
crack pitcher will soon join the New
York nine. It is said that the league
magnates are using their influence to
bring about a. compromise. Rusie is
putting himself in condition, and his
confidante insist that he expects to re-
turn to the diamond. .
Boos Demandsan Election.
Trenton, March 24.—Edward H005,
the Democratic candidate for mayor of
Jersey City. today applied to Justice
Lippincott for a writ of mandamus to
compel the city clerk to distribute bal~
lots and hold the city election as usual
on the second Tuesday in April. The
city clerk, he alleges, had refused to
take the usual steps for the April elec-
tion, owing to the recent enactment of
a. law abolishing the April elections in
that city and Newark.
Tramps Injured In a Freight Wreck.
Springfield, 0., March 24.—The follow-
ing persons were injured in the wreck
of train 71, a. freight, on the Big Four
road near here: William Kinsley, St.
Louis; Edward Kinsley, St.
Frank Fay, St. Louis; William Seney,
Jersey City. It is feared that ten oth-
ers are buried in the wreck. The train
was carrying a. number of tramps,
among them the injured men. -
Sylvester Scovel Returns.
New York, March 24.——Sylvester Sco-
vel, the New York World’s Cuban war
correspondent, arrived in this city to-
day on the steamship Seguranca.» He
was arrested by the Spa--.'sh troops
seven weeks ago while trying to reach
Key West. He was ordered to be shot,
but instead was confined in prison for
31 days and was unconditionally re—
leased on March 10.
Four ltIur-derers Respited.
Santa Fe, March 24.—A-teleg'ram was
received today from Washington say-
ing that President McKinley had res—
pited for ten days the four members
of the Button gang who we're to have‘
been hanged today for the murder of
err-Sheriff Frank Chaves May 29, 1892.
Asphyxiated by Gas.
Yonkers, March 24.——Charles Black-
burn, 45, was found dead in his bed to-
day. Blackburn drank heavily. This
morning Mrs. Finlay, his landlady,
failed to arouse him, She forced the
‘door and found Blackburn lying dead
-on.the bed, The room was full of gas.
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0R SALE—Two Mino ca Roasters
Pekin Duck Fags Slice-k t'r , pure
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)fiins yard last 36“; 750 per setting. BlusaE. -
OLAN. 11117 tf
0R SALE—Carrier Wheel—a l ' t(‘
F Tocque’s, Dyer, BrOMl River?1l)\’d-}ivallk.Pi
, Mar. 23 3-1'.
0R SALE—Handsome Ba
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years old, fine pedigree—or will td‘x?
change for two sear eil oarriage—apnly t) C P -
Tocque, Dyer, Broad RIVer. Norwflk. ‘ ‘
Mar. 23 3-t.
DR SALE—The elegant residenc 0’
General Darius N. (‘ouch,situateedti:th 13 «13%;:
Maplestreet. on high ground, ove looking the
twm cites of Norwalk and South Norwalk ‘
Norwalk Islands and Long Island Sour d. for a:
distance of some twenty miles. The dwellinor
lS'nefll‘ll’llt-W; 119510 large, comihodiousroom:
with modern improvements; about two acres
of land. fronting on said Maple street, which
could be sold to good advantage for building
lots: abundance of fruit; excellent well of
water, Apply to 0. E. WILSON. Room 3, Gazette
Building, horwalk, Conn. . m19 tf
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her home No.193 Main streetion 6 Piano 8.
. Hoyt’s Theatre.
SOU I‘H N ORWALK.
A NOTABLE EVENT.
Saturday, March 27. 5
ONE FIGHT ONLY.
Presentation cf the Famous
“ Sex Against Sex” Drama,
The New York Empire Theatre Success, with
THE BIG CITY: COMPANY.
NOTE—Exactly the same cast and details'
w l1('h have distinguished this productiOn in
all the princmal Cities will be seen here.
Seats on sale at Plaisted’s and Pinneo's.
Telephonetumpany
REDUCTION or RATES.
FOR HOUSE SERVICE.
The Southern New F n gland Telephone Com--
pany announce that. comm encing April 1. 1597.
the rates for House Telephones will be redne-
ed as follows: . .
PARTY LINE SERVICE. within one-half
mile, from $36.00 TO $30.00.
SINGLE -LINE SERVICE, within one-half
mile. from $.48.00 TO $42.00.
MEASURED SERVICE.
PARTYILINF, within city limits, (local con-
nections 5c), $1 8.00.
For information apply to the
' LOCAL MANAGER,
SENTINEL BUILDING, WASHINGTON ST..
South Norwalk, Conn'.
nus:
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